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Squeeze Your Tea Bag: Should You or Shouldn’t You?

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What happens when you squeeze your tea bag?

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When a wet tea bag is squeezed, the resulting liquid is loaded with tannic acid, which is a type of polyphenol known as gallic acid.

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Polyphenols are good micronutrients present in many fruits, vegetables, and plants. Because tea, especially black tea, has a lot of tannic acid, it contains a lot of gallic acid and therefore, many polyphenol micronutrients too.

Other good things about tannic acid are that it kills germs because it’s antimicrobial. It stops cells from becoming cancerous because it’s anticarcinogenic. It stops cells from changing because it is antimutagenic. It keeps free radicals from harming cells because it is antioxidative.

And tannic acid has been shown to help blood to clot and to reduce blood pressure!

But here’s the deal. If tannic acid is good for you, why shouldn’t you squeeze your tea bag?

5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Squeeze Your Tea Bag

Reason 1 – Tannic acid is what gives tea its bitter, sour or astringent taste. The more tannic acid released into the water, the more bitter or sour taste is present. If you are working on brewing a perfect cup of tea, whether it is green or black, then why make it nasty tasting by adding those bitter tannins into the lovely cup of tea?

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